Frederick Douglass: “You have got the devil in you,” say they, “and we will whip him out of…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

You have got the devil in you,” say they, “and we will whip him out of you.” I have often been put thus to the torture, on bare suspicion.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

Source

In his autobiography, Douglass recounts the brutal and arbitrary methods slaveholders used to punish enslaved people, often based on mere suspicion.

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